1. Ernest Borek was a Hungarian-American microbiologist, university professor, cancer researcher, and author.
10 Facts About Ernest Borek
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Ernest Borek was a professor at City University of New York and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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Ernest Borek was chairman of the Colorado Regional Cancer Center's Support Review Committee of the National Cancer Institute.
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Ernest Borek graduated from the City College of New York and obtained his PhD in biochemistry from Columbia University.
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Ernest Borek served as director of the Colorado Regional Cancer Center and was chairman of the Cancer Center's Support Review Committee of the National Cancer Institute.
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In 1962, with Erwin Fleissner, Ernest Borek showed that methyl groups in RNA that are essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation, and expression of genes are introduced to RNA by methylating enzymes at the macro-molecular level.
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Ernest Borek was the author of four popular books for the non-scientist, Man, the Chemical Machine, The Atoms Within Us, The Code of Life, and The Sculpture of Life, which describes the history and development of biochemistry and molecular biology.
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Ernest Borek was awarded the Medal of the Society of Biological Chemists of Finland in 1965.
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The City College of New York offers the annual Ernest Borek Scholarship, funded by his sister Irene Marsh, to undergraduate and graduate students "who show promise in chemistry or biochemistry".
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Ernest Borek died in Denver on February 14,1986, at the age of 74.